Security AND Freedom. Weren't these enshrined in the US Constitution ?
Yes, but only for white land-owners. The sad reality is that we don't have and hopefully don't want our literal forefathers' vision today. Makes for effective rhetoric though, with so many ignorant of history...
God, all you applebashers are such retards! Apparently you think a companies' chief exec, marketing, and PR defines the customers. Which of course would mean that all microsofties find churritos and ill-fitting shoes hilarious and frequently have chair-throwing tantrums and do a lot of weird chants and sweaty dancing.
It gets worse: they rate electric cars in miles per gallon. "Yeah, just fill 'er up with five gallons of electricity. Premium, please!" The EPA gathered together some focus group of yokels and found that they didn't know what a kilowatt hour was, and so decided to put everything into "gallons", which is an absurd measure for electricity.
It's a shell game. Otherwise they'd do the only sensible thing, which is: For a series hybrid ("EREV" in marketing-speak) like the Volt, "N mpkw on electric and N mpg on gas", and For a parallel hybrid like the Prius, "N mpg when starting with a full charge, N mpg when starting with no charge". That way those of us who understand maths a bit will be informed. Nearly everyone else will misinformed anyway no matter what kind of rating they use.
They really ought to do that. After all, microsoft makes a boatload of money off all the people who think they need a new computer every other year when it's just the malware making the thing run slowly. If they shipped a more secure OS the resulting drop in revenue would hurt them badly, which is one reason malware from 1995 can run on windows 6.1, er, "7".
Yes exactly my point, I was agreeing with you. I believe government should step down or be overthrown periodically, as did several of this nation's founders.
I think the key is to always have a fresh, young government.
That's one possible way to help keep the level of corruption low, creating a new government every so often (say 20 years or so). Our 200+ year old system has long since overstayed its welcome, becoming impossibly corrupt and ineffective at meeting the needs of the people.
It's the classic British ethnocentricity. Amazing they manage to keep that in spite of shrinking from an entire empire to a few teensy-weensy little islands. I love it when they come to U.S.-based sites and broadcast British news as if it matters to us. Or correct us on our English, that's a good one. They really mean it, too. It takes a special kind of culture, I reckon...
If the SEC is underfunded and understaffed then how the heck do they expect to deal with the avalanche of false positives by idiots who think they're qualified to participate? The SEC should get its funding directly from the businesses they're supposed to regulate. A flat percentage of gross corporate income, no doubt a fraction of a percent would be plenty enough.
Libertards complaining that corporations deserve a free ride on the backs of real citizens in 3..2..1..
No, but using your computer with a FOSS OS to watch video and a decent p2p setup will render them irrelevant. It's called "opting out of being ripped off". Until Big Media shows a little respect, that's what they deserve because they set it up so that either they steal from you, you steal from them, or you do without. Fuck them.
Town of Farragut announces the following statistics for the 2010 second quarter enforcement period of April 1 through June 30 for its Traffic Enforcement Program (red light violations).
Oh, but isn't it wonderful that we are so rich that we can spend big money on the really important things, like digging through the dumpster we laughingly refer to as "the Atlantic Ocean" for historical tidbits? Yes, as a society our priorities are clearly in proper order... Screw our natural resources, this Titanic thingie will sell advertising!
And after all is said and done, isn't that what life's all about?
People will die from shortcomings of technology, whether the tech is FOSS or not.
Capitalism being the state religion in most of the developed world, I think it's safe to say that proprietary software will be with us forever. Fortunately, idealism is still a common enough human trait we can say the same of FOSS. One isn't going to "win" over the other, ever. We will simply continue to have both. And that's as it should be.
I've no idea how it achieved even the limited popularity it has managed to muster.
It's the CMS for non-geeks who do everything in the browser, which makes it the only choice for the average casual user trying to build a website. Not so mysterious...
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Of course they're not joking. All just part of securing the planet, you know. Did you imagine they had some smaller goal in mind?
Yes, but only for white land-owners. The sad reality is that we don't have and hopefully don't want our literal forefathers' vision today. Makes for effective rhetoric though, with so many ignorant of history...
It's actually kind of hilarious sometimes to see windows-style fake error messages when browsing in Opera on FreeBSD.
Yeah um, don't be informed by my sig or anything. Dumbass.
God, all you applebashers are such retards! Apparently you think a companies' chief exec, marketing, and PR defines the customers. Which of course would mean that all microsofties find churritos and ill-fitting shoes hilarious and frequently have chair-throwing tantrums and do a lot of weird chants and sweaty dancing.
Yes, but you'll have to disable "Aero".
And clearly you are just such a moron.
It's a shell game. Otherwise they'd do the only sensible thing, which is:
For a series hybrid ("EREV" in marketing-speak) like the Volt, "N mpkw on electric and N mpg on gas", and
For a parallel hybrid like the Prius, "N mpg when starting with a full charge, N mpg when starting with no charge". That way those of us who understand maths a bit will be informed. Nearly everyone else will misinformed anyway no matter what kind of rating they use.
They really ought to do that. After all, microsoft makes a boatload of money off all the people who think they need a new computer every other year when it's just the malware making the thing run slowly. If they shipped a more secure OS the resulting drop in revenue would hurt them badly, which is one reason malware from 1995 can run on windows 6.1, er, "7".
What, to my tubes?! You're doing it wrong...
My tubes were tied years ago, I guess so they can't connect anything to them.
Fusion is the alchemy of the modern age. It can be done, but will likely be so hideously expensive as to be pointless.
Yes exactly my point, I was agreeing with you. I believe government should step down or be overthrown periodically, as did several of this nation's founders.
I think the key is to always have a fresh, young government. That's one possible way to help keep the level of corruption low, creating a new government every so often (say 20 years or so). Our 200+ year old system has long since overstayed its welcome, becoming impossibly corrupt and ineffective at meeting the needs of the people.
Indeed. I almost feel sorry for the submitter, it's so obvious he hasn't the faintest clue about his chosen subject matter...
It's the classic British ethnocentricity. Amazing they manage to keep that in spite of shrinking from an entire empire to a few teensy-weensy little islands. I love it when they come to U.S.-based sites and broadcast British news as if it matters to us. Or correct us on our English, that's a good one. They really mean it, too. It takes a special kind of culture, I reckon...
So apparently this means nothing to the other 99.6% or so of the world's population.
If the SEC is underfunded and understaffed then how the heck do they expect to deal with the avalanche of false positives by idiots who think they're qualified to participate? The SEC should get its funding directly from the businesses they're supposed to regulate. A flat percentage of gross corporate income, no doubt a fraction of a percent would be plenty enough.
Libertards complaining that corporations deserve a free ride on the backs of real citizens in 3..2..1..
I see some **AA asslicker got mod points again...
No, but using your computer with a FOSS OS to watch video and a decent p2p setup will render them irrelevant. It's called "opting out of being ripped off". Until Big Media shows a little respect, that's what they deserve because they set it up so that either they steal from you, you steal from them, or you do without. Fuck them.
duh...
Yes, and we all know how infallible those revenue-generating ticket machines are. Also your local government would *never* cheat...
Oh, but isn't it wonderful that we are so rich that we can spend big money on the really important things, like digging through the dumpster we laughingly refer to as "the Atlantic Ocean" for historical tidbits? Yes, as a society our priorities are clearly in proper order... Screw our natural resources, this Titanic thingie will sell advertising! And after all is said and done, isn't that what life's all about?
People will die from shortcomings of technology, whether the tech is FOSS or not. Capitalism being the state religion in most of the developed world, I think it's safe to say that proprietary software will be with us forever. Fortunately, idealism is still a common enough human trait we can say the same of FOSS. One isn't going to "win" over the other, ever. We will simply continue to have both. And that's as it should be.
It's the CMS for non-geeks who do everything in the browser, which makes it the only choice for the average casual user trying to build a website. Not so mysterious...